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A;P ILESCAPADE
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
• svNorsis, Vallejo, with ,her own mo ,ter and
The O'H,rafamily: poor but 'happy; is Sisters. and brot�'e ' " '
"supported by' Martin and Mary Kate, the rs, all At-A'Onte,,loV}n
et"t•n
,
,o des ;children. Martin o ,oldest r n :who'��is her.
a She;Y�
May Abe•:e
00 butthere's r h s
r o•
µ ''11
Y p,.n
stud Lt ' •mel medicine a til ht
Y t a e e.
g
g
, g
t a
shame.
to hatr
t and ' � e e rich.
chance Germany howvrr h.hed
ha o,to o.tevGe n an with Dr, ,
AntWerp, but turns it down ;because of be, cometen yeersfrom now,she)d'be
tol tette fhe.Apnotun ttewhlchwiv111u can as fit stand- beside. him as'anyone•
a great deal to 'him,ries to, plan some he'd ever' find, and too good .for him,
way. to get the money which will enable too, 11 :ytu ask nie!
Martin' to go. . •
Afary It:a a and a ming chap, Cass "Why Cass Keating,". she went on,
Beating, are In love. and plan,to be mar- warming, "whose' grandfather, ran the.
rled as seen as possible,
One night Mary, Kate kens: her mother `ins'Elevla-"en Mile Tavern' down the Pen -
of her engagement to Cass Keating, and.
the older woman Shows 'disapproval. „
Then. Martin comes„ in and• begins a. .Listen, Mother—
strategic attack o» his mother. eI'll listen to you, Mart, that ought
CHAPTER VIIL-(Continued) es be .nakin'it easy..for ,your sister,
ell' the man to the house, and
h lc1n''.hinr welcome, and' tier with all
those rich-girls,:pullin' against her!
'It's ,not right' of you, Mart, and it
does pierce me eery cruel that it'd be
her own blood -brother---•”
"Now, 'listen, Mother!' If • ybu say
so, Til 'phone Cass tomorrow, and tell
him that you want him to come out to
dinner-"
"Give until -well, that's all right,"
Mrs. O'Hara said, suddenly restored
to normal . avenues 01 thinking and
feeling, the old Meek frying pan and
tender split chickens sizzling within' it
clear in her mind, "Do that now,
Matt," she urged. "I can get me din-
ner in tomorrow mornin'l I'll have
him send nie a good' order. And as.
for tonight," Mre. O'Hara continued
loftily, "well, I don't know that it'll
dt him any harm to know that we're
ir. no hurry to get of Mary Kate!"
"Oh, Mother!" said Mary Kate,'un-
able to continue the make-believe any
loner, and rising to fall upon her
knees at her mother'e feet, push the
sewing aside, and link her hands be-
hind her mothers neck, "you do like
him?"
"If you like hint, Baby," the mother
said gently.
"Oh, I adore you!" the girl said,
laughing and crying, She jumped to
her feet, ashamed of her own emotion
and ran out of the kitchen,
Mrs. O'Hara looked appealingly,
pathetically, at her son.
"The way you ail have me be-
devilled," she complained, "I don't
know whether you :ike him or not, or
whether I want her to marry him, or
to have on boot him out of .ne house!"
"Poor Ma!" was all" the comfort
)dart could give her, as he knocked his
pipe free Of ashes, folded the strip
of newspaper that contained them into
a careful bundle, Deposited it in the
garbage can under the sinlc, and kissed
his mothers daisy -white forehead,
where the rich dark hair sprang away
in a smooth youthful wave. He laugh-
ed as he spoke, but his mother only
looked at him darkly, half -suspecting,
perhapa, that these two -clever children
of hers were lnanipulating her again.
"The whole lot of you's a heart -
scald to nae," she said, gloomily, But
when her first-born kissed her, she
drew his dark cheek hungrily against
her own. . The day's work was done
now; it was .bedtime.
"The way .you taut,, you'd think
Cass Keating was too good for 'Mary,
Kate," ethe woman 'presently _aid; re-
sentfully. .
"Nobody's too good for Mary Kate!"
"We11, then, you're talkie' very
queer, Mere,"
"No, it's like this, Mother. Cass
Keating is terrible popular, see? And
*all the girls -girls of twenty-five,
older girls, girls with rich fathers, are
after hint, see?
"Now I don't say Mary Hate
couldn't hold him, but I do say that
he's going to make money, he'll have
an automobile -he'll buy a place out
in St. Francis Wood or somewhere-"
Mrs. O'Hara stirred the mixture in
the pot, salted it, tasted it.
"And Mary Kate couldn't keep up
with him?" she asked gently.
"Well, I only mean that it would
put her at a disadvantage, Ma."
"Mary Kate O'Hara, is that it?"
"Well, Mother, don't get on your
high horse! I'm not knocking Molly.
I simply say that here's a fellow that's
gding to make milligns, like. O'Grady
Brothers, or Cunningham Company-"
The rough, expert hands that were
ntanioulating the blae saucepan trem-
bled visibly. Mrs. O'Hara poured hot
water into the lower casse-'ole gently,
fitted the upper one in plate, pressed
down the cover. She at tate pen back
on the stove.
"I suppose I'm •urprised that you
don't stand up for your sister, Kart."
Tier voice was level, dead.
"Maty Kate understands ,nel" Mar-
tin glanced at his sister; their unsmil-
ing, faintly significant looks met in a
steady. stare. Thei Mary Kate drop -
pee her eyes again.
The mother sat down at the table,
a strong needle, threaded with black
thread, and a Childs strap slipper, sud-
dehly in her hands. '
"In Mary Kate's place I wouldn't
know what to think of you," said Mrs.
O'Hara.
Martin was stuffing his pipe; he
made no reply.
"Are the Keatings so well thought
of, 'Mart?" the older woman demand-
ed, surprisedly, in a forcibly restrain•
ed voice.
"Cass is," the bob said briefly.
"Is he so? It's a pity then, that he
wouldn't go after one of those million-
aires' slaughters, Mart," Mrs. O'Hara
observed drily.
"Ile will," Mary Kate said bitterly.
"I, never said anything against hits
by word or look, all I'd ask is that
a daughter of mine would know her
own mind, and be said by her mother
and brother, that would love her more
than a thousand men, however rich
they'd bel" Mrs. O'Mara presently said
sententiously and a little uneasily.
" Thnt's kind of an old -country idea,
bother," Mart remin led her, pulling
on his pipe.
"What's an old -country idea:"
"That a girl would let her mother
a d brother pick her husband for her."
"I don't.know who'd love her more,
that'd tlo it for her," the woman said.
"You and my father, now. Did you
brother pick him?"
"He did not. My brother hated the
very step of Tom O'Hara in the dust!"
Mrs. O'Hara admitted honestly. "But
them was very different days, Mart.
No, we run away, Papa and I did-"
"Well, there's your clue, Mary
Kneel" Mart reminded his sister
cheerfully, in a silence.
"That'd beefine advice to give her!"
the mother said, roused.to`uneasiness,
carried beyond her depth.
always thought I'd ,have a
el urch wedding," Mary Kate observed
dispassionately. Her eyes, with a clamm-
ing flicker in them, rested for a mo-
ment upon her brother.
"If you can .pin thet feller down to
a wedding at all, Mary Kate-" Mart
began.
His mother. indignantly interrupted
him. "Mart, don't talk that way io
your sister! It's disgusting. A body
wouldn't know-" Med. O'Hara con-
tinued with a sharply suspicious
glance at her son, "whether you like!
hien or not. Why would she run off
like a bad girl, and be marri'd by a
Justice of the Peace in Colina or
Made of pure mater.
laic ire modern sunlit factories.
No expense spared to have it
clean, wholesome and full flavored.
JT,
is wrapped and sealed to keep it es
good as when it leaves the factory.
WRIGLLX'3 is bound to be the best
that men and machines and money
can make.
The delicious peppermint
flavor freshens the mouth
and aids digestion:
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MILLIONS
tau
ISSUE No. 40--'30
CHAPTER IX.
Her own room, which little Pat
shared, adjoined the kitchen, but after
she had deposited her damp Coat and
widow's bonnet there, and gotten into
a colorless flannelette nightgown, she
padded softly in old felt slippers, to
the deserted dining -room, that smelled
of apples, dust an: school books, and
groped about in the neighborhood of
the fireplace for the old-fashioned gas
jet, on a hinged iron arm. Tom slept
in this room, on an extension couch.
Mart had the little slice of hall bed-
room upstairs, and Tom usually un-
dressed there, and kept his shabby
wardeube here and there, in all the
household closets-sweate-s in -the
skate and rubber closet under the
stairs, neck ties on a nail in the bath-
room, coat on another nail, in' the
downstairs passage,
His mother always opened his bed
for him; she had forgotten it tonight.
She went to the familiar little job with
a heavy heart; where was the boy,
on this rainy, unfriendly evening?
But the instant the little wavering
bead of light was shining, her spirit
was inundated with sudden peace. Tom
had opened his own bed; his damp
clothing was scattered all over the
floor, his dark head deep in the sod-
den billow.
His mother sank thankfully upon
her knees en the littered floor beside
the couch, and put her arms about hint
and without waking he snuggled close
t her, grunted andsighed happily, in
affectionate content. She kissed the
thick dark waves. of his hair -her
good, dear, innocent boy that had been
asleep in here all the time she had
been so worrying about him.
"Ah, Tom you're such a darling,"
"Gee, I adore you, Mother."
"Don't wake up dear," But she
couldn't let him alone., "Where were
you, dear?"
"We were at the Alhambra ---right
behind you. But I got sleepy-"
He had sunk fathoms deep into de-
licious slumber again. His final, "Gee,
I love you-" died off into inarticulate
murmuring.
Mrs. O'Hara began her evening
prayers, her lips against the thihk
dark hair that smelled of rain and
youth and Martin's jealously cherish-
ed "stile-tite.
Meanwhile Martin had slipped into
Mary Kate's room and with the ex-
quisite privilege of brotherhood was
sitting on the edge of her bed in the
dark, her warm, slim, young hands
tight in his, her breathless rush of
ecstatic confidences coming to him in
eager whispers.
"Oh, yes, Mart. Casa and l have
been• --•sort of -working up to it, since
Christmas. But of course.;' wasn't
sure: And then, all of a sudden to-
night, we were talking about it, you
knnow about what we'd do, and income,
and budget and everything! Oh,
Marty, you de like hint?"
"I.th:nk he's a pip.":
"Oo, but do you honestly? . And,
Mart, he is so much older than the
others -I mean he's nearlytwenty-
seven, you know, and I mean he's in
•eitrnest, He's marvelous. Mart,
1Vlotherell be ,alt right, won't she?"
(To be continued,)
What New York
Is Wearing
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giving a subtle air of youth. The plain
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Its easy to make and smart to wear.
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16, 18 years, 30, 38, 40, 42 and 44
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Black canton crepe is charming with
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Mahogany brown flat crepe with
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Heat -Waves Are
Good For Health?
"During the heatwave the whole
world sweated freely. Never before,
perhaps, has perspiration been so pro-
fuse and so continuous, because the
humidity of the air served to stimul-
ate the sweat -glands to their greatest
activity." writes the Medical Corres-
apondent.of the Times Trade anti En-
gineering Supplement,
"Tire result was that most of us
got rid of a great Ileal of poison fix=
our systems, 1n 'numerous cases at-
tacks of rheumatism, lumbago, scia-
tica, and other aches and pains were
cut short to the surprise and delight
of the sufferers.
"The hint should be worth taking.
Except during heat -waves most of us
sweat very little in the ordinary
course rot our occupations, It is at
least possible that if we sweated
more we should enjoy better health.
"A daily sweat may be far more
effective than a deity apple in keeping
the doctor away."
HOW LONG b0 PARROTS LIVE?
It is supposed that. some parrots
live Considerably more than a cen-
tury. There is a definite record of
one specimen, a gray parrot, that
lived 90 years.
Big Snake Hunting
World's Best Thrill
Noted Traveller Gives Graphic
Account of python-.
Hunt •
Orchard hunting isn"my job, but'
whet!
b o
Y w ay_ f a change, I started
en: a five months' tour 'of prospecting
'and exploring among ,Borneo's hilts
and .valleys, rivers, and jungles, I lis-
covered• about the most thrilling sport
in the' 'world: the sport of python
hunting as indulged 'in by a tribe
called the Dusuns.
To the Dusuns python flesh, ie a
delicious 'dainty. They ,are 'gieat py-
thon, eaters, It astonished -me to see
how eagerly they will penetrate. deep
into these darkened, dank, •snaice-
infested forests.
The Dusan python -hunting was a
case`of putting the shoe on the other
foot. I have seen a great many snakes
of all varieties in my time,,and my
chief recollection is the agility dis-
played by man in leaping out of their
way. A hissing serpent, celled to
strike, is one of the ugliest things --
and the cold touch of its live, slither-
ing scales, is .a sensation to make
your scalp creep; , .. But my Dusuns
up a python tree were as sporty and
unconcerned as is. American on a Scot-
tish grouse -moor,
Armed only with his beloved par-
ang, the Dusan wades into the old Py-
thon so heartily that the tables are
completely turned and it's the 'tSig
snake that urgently wants to get
away, hissing like a locomotive, his
ugly, yellow jaws agape.
I embarked for a trip up the Python
River with a .fleet of six dugouts end
twelve 'Dusun bearers; who were evi-
gently looking forward gleefully to a
big bag of toothsome python.
We had passed'the last of the clear-
ings when we camped for the night,
and on the following' day :he jungle
of the real python -country swallowed
us. It was here that we glided into
the region of perpetual twilight. Our
laden dug -outs entered a tortuous,
silent tunnel whose Ieaning walls and
low -hanging roof were the interlockee.
boughs and -branches and leaves and
tendrils of trees that crowded either'
bank; only the slenderest darts of
sunshine shot slantwise through the
interstices.
The little Dusun boatmen quivered
with excitment, paddling stealthily
with hardly a ripple on the surface of
the water. They were watching the
overhanging branches and still fol-
iage, heads flung back, their dilated
eyes ringed with white. All day they
had talked snake, and I believe those
python -eaters dream snake all night,
And now the fun was to begin.
Naturally my „eyes were uneasily
ranging among the thick, overhanging
foliage, which seemed much too life-
less to be true. I could see nothing
but scarred, yellowish bark and green
leaves. Nature has so cunningly canl-
ouflaged the pythons akin that it seems
to assimilate its Ieafy surroundings -
to vision less acute than the roving
eyes of the smite -hunters.
The dug -out stopped. The Dustin
in the stern shipped his• paddle, but he
had never taken his eyes off the
branches overhead. He flung up an
arm, pointing,
"Ulal" he yelled. "Ula!"
Ula! Snake/ '
The boatman grabbed a low branch
and swung himself up into the tree.
Getting astride of a gnarled branch,
he began to work his way outwards
towards the middle of the stream,
drawing his parang.
There was an instant upheaval in
the densely.c!ustered leaves and twin-
ing tendrils. Terrifically, the foliage
woke to life, and a ten foot python's
long, flat head reared up, the big yel-
low mouth agape, hissing, the mighty
coils slithering- and writhing.
The little Dustin 'lashed out with his
parting, three blows in less than a
second of time. I never saw a cat
strike quicker. And every blow went
straight to the mark -thud! thud!
thud!
The big snake's head jerked side-
ways, oddly like a boxer who had been
socked on the jaw, and the full length
of his sinuous coils went mad. De-
spite his fearsome appearance and
great size, it was clear that he didn't
ike what was coming to hint. In the
anguage of the rem., the Dusun's
whirlwind attack had got him groggy.
That flailing parang was all over hint
-thud! thud! thud! Leaves and bark
President Elect C. W. N. A.
Malcolm MaeBeath, of "The Sun," Milverton, Ont,, (left) newly elected
President of the Canadian Weekly:Newspaper Association, photographed in
front of the Nova Scotian Hotel at Halifax after his election at the closing
session of the annual convention held in the Nova Scotian, August 8, 9, 10,
with Iiugh Savage, of "The.Cowiehan' Leader," Duncan, B.O., (centre) retire
Ing .Presldent'and .5. Roy Sayles, of "The Renfrew Mercury," Renfrew, Ont., t
general Manager of the ii.ssociation,-(Canadian National Railway's Photo-
graph.),
S 1a a Orange Pelkoi,, Blend
gives greatest satisfaction
ORANGE
PEKOE
QE
BLIND
'IMO from the gardens'
761
were; ripped from the boughs and'lit
tered the still surface of the river.
I5 nsy dug -outs down belowwe were.
yelling with .excitement, The python
peered at us wickedly, and just in that
,fredeem of a aeeond he stopped en -
other whizzing clout on the hoed and
visibly wilted, so that the follow-up
missed him and whinged against a
tough bough with an ugly sound that
told us how hard our friend was hit-
ting.
That seemed to . decide the first
round, for the snake evidently thought
the tree was altogether too':hot for
hits. He uncoiled himself and drop.
ped into the .water. Then :he real fun
started, Six ,tardy Dusuns went
after him, and grabbed hire. in ;six
places at once with their bare arms
aud'hands.
The strength of an eneaged python
is prodigious. Though held tenacioue-
ly by six strong men, his convulsive
struggles dragged then in all direc-
tions. But the Dusuns bung on grimly.
Strong, as he was -and his body was
as thick as a m::ns leg, his captors
were stronger. Warily they prevented
him from hitching on to anything
with his tail, and they dragged his
head over the thwart of one of the
dug -outs where another Dusun was
waiting for him with his parang
poised.
Thud? Thud! Thud!
Using the dug -out as a kind of
butchering -block the Dusun bludgeon-
ed the giant snake to death. They
hammered its head into pulp. When.
its huge, limp length was dragged into
the boat, there wasn't a tremor from
tip to tail. Inert and coiled up, stow-
ed away like an old rope's enol, the
hunters left him. Their blood was up.
Laughing and jabbering excitedly,
craning their necks and gazing up into
the trees, they prepared for another
attack.
Their shrill yells in the fight that
had just ended, the slur:y of the wafer
and the whangin; and thuddieg of the
pr,rangs, had raised the alarm among
tee tree -dwelling python families.
Now we could see them plainly
enough, the ripple of their coils along
the branches, and the quick, menacing
movement of their darting heads,
When our sport was over, we took
a snapshot of eight beautiful skins --
all much longer than the height of a
very tall man -hanging out to dry
on the thatch of my portable shack.
Gazing at then reflectively, it seemed
to me that I had been privileged to
witness the most exciting and purely
sporting hunt in -•the world. It had
been a reaily stirring experience, even
to a hard-bitten hunter like myself.
It appealed to my sporting instincts ro
strongly because the Dusuns attacked
their formiclable quarry in its own
difficult strongholds, and then disdain-
ed to hack with the parang's cutting
edge, using their weapon only as tt
bludgeon and actually tackling the
snakes with their bare. hands,
The Dpeuns had attacked nine py-
thons during the clay's hunting. Only
one managed to get away, an enor-
mous reptile over twelve feet in length.
The fight in the water was nothing
short of spectacular -six intrepid Du -
suns and one huge snake. The hunt-
ers did not let go, either, until they
were all actually thrown. It was like
an aquatic rodeo wit;• a buck -jump-
ing twelve -foot python hurling his six
assailants at one terrific throw. They
went down, sputtering, a windmill of
legs and arms. But they came up,
still sputtering, but laughing, thor-
oughly enjoying thetttselves-and the
spectacle of the huge python making
his way to shore like a torpedo.
Every night the Dusuns had tt ban-
quet of python flesh. The flesh has a
Meting, fishy smell. These natives cut
it up, rather like one slices a banana,
and slowly boil it in a hollow bamboo
filled with water, -F.. D. Burdett in
"Pearson's Magazine."
Song of Sleep
"When you lay your head on the ell'
low, go sinking, sinking
Down, down In the fathomless p001
of steep;
Drowsily, drowsily lie, no thinking,
thinking;
Let your mind be void, and your
breathing blow and deep.
"Down, down, to the rhythmic flow-
ing
Of somnolent waves that ceaseless-
ly rc11 and roll,
Till you walte and wonder how anti'
whither unlcnowing
Softly, stealthily over you slumber'
stole, , , ,
"Stole as the reaves of the sea go
stealhtg, stealing
Over the shore.... When clarknoos"
dreams, and the night
Calls yon to pillowy ease for healin,7,1
healing,
Lot care from your heart, Bite a
winging bird, take night.
"Drowsily, drowsily yield, no thinking,
thinking;
Let your mind be void, and your
breathing' slow and deep;
When you lay your lead of the pil-
low, go sinking, sinking
Down, down, down in the pool of
sleep.,.."
]Brenda Murray Draper, In the
Morning Post says: -
"If these 'verses are memorized,
and the ideas therein assimilated 'and
carried out, peaceful sleep will en-
sue. Let the bead Ile heavily on the
pillow as the verses are being mono
onodely repeated."
e
What is the oldest' Settler in the
$ sept? The Sun,
Winter Cl thing
Affects "Talkies"
Actors and Actresses Have to
"Speak -up" Due to Absorb-
ing Qualities of Winter
Garb
Audiences in a theatre or motion
picture house absorb more sound in
winter than in summer; due to the
increase in clothing in the colder sea.
son, For this reason actresses and
actors have to speak louder to winter
audiences and the loud -speaking talk-
ing picture equipment has to be tuned
i.p to higher volume in winter to make
the spoken souads clearly audible
throughout the building. . According
to V. L. Christler, of the sound section
of the United States Bureau of Stand-
ards, the quality of clothing worn by
an audience is a large factor in deter-
mining the length of time required
for sounds in a theatre to decay and
fall to zero.
The following information was fur-
nished by Mr Christler:
The sound section of the Bureau of
Standards has for ,ome time been
carrying on experiments with sound.
reverberation and acoustical mater-
ials. These experiments have been
conducted in a specially constructed
building housing a large empty room
having no sound absorpti., t and no
acoustical pronerties. A loud speaker
is placed in the cnvnty room and the
length of time require1 for the sound
to decay after the ..tierce has been shut
oto is measured.
These experimerts are carried on
first in an empty room and then are
repeated with various types of ma-
terials having acoustic properties
plated along the walls and ceiling. in
this way practically every type tit
c.eoustical material now made has been
tested with the co-operation of the
ntanufactcrers.
Amon,: the most common substances
from which acousticse materials are
made are plaster and hair belt, sugar
cane fibre, pumice and rock wool, the
letter being the result of molten rocik
Lown through exceedingly fine jets.
Some of the materials were found to
have higher coefficients of sound ab-
sorption than other's. In general those
of higher coefficients seem to be more
costly.
A greater amount of acoustical ma-
terial is ordinarily used in motion pic-
ture ho .nes than in theatre due to the
fact that the human voice is 'weak
compared to the stentorian tones of
which the talking motion iieture 13
capable. The louder the tones the mere
is the effect of reverberation and
therefore the automatic voices being
so much stronger require more cbamp-
ing material in the picture houses.
In theatres and picture houses the
materials are usually placed on the
walls and ceilings with drapes or cur-
tains used over the doors and en-
trances. In malty theatres only a little
acoustic material is 'necessary, due to
the banks of soft velvet covered spring
seats that absorb sound to a high de-
gree.
THE BORE
The blackbird sings a lovely sons;,
And so do thrushes, too;
But big brown owl the whole night
long
Can only say "Too-whooi"
-7atit and 3111 Adair.
:4 man who can aderive 210 enjoy-
ment out of doing something is oicl,
no matter what his years arc." -Wins.
ton Churchill.
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